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The Mortal Instruments sequel to start filming again next year

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Oct 23, 2013

Movie executives at German company Constantin Film are moving forward with a sequel to THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES, despite the film's box office failure earlier this year (13). Production for The Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes was shelved after the first installment of the franchise underperformed globally, making just over $100 million (£66.6 million) and reportedly failing to break even.
But fans have campaigned for a sequel and now executives have agreed to green light the follow-up, which will start shooting next year (14).
Constantin Film's head of film and TV, Martin Moszkowicz, tells The Hollywood Reporter, "The fan response, from the blogosphere and the thousands of mails we have received, has encouraged us to keep going. It's been overwhelmingly positive, in contrast to some other YA (young adult) titles.
"We are analysing what we did wrong with the first film, particularly with the positioning and marketing, and what changes we have to make. We are working with a great group of people to reposition the franchise (for City of Ashes). The readers of Mortal Instruments are older than you might think. That may have been one issue in our marketing, that we focused too much on a very young audience segment."
Former real-life couple Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower are expected to return for the sequel.

Actress and dancer Larri Thomas has died, aged 81. The star famously performed a striptease for Dean Martin at the start of The Silencers and appeared in South Pacific, The Pajama Game, Guys & Dolls and Road to Bali, opposite Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.
Thomas also served as a stand-in for Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music and had small parts in those films, too.
In addition, she worked alongside Dean Martin on his popular NBC variety show and danced with Fred Astaire on his live TV specials.

Peter Gabriel's lost home video footage from the 1986 Amnesty International A Conspiracy Of Hope U.S. tour has been unearthed and restored for an upcoming DVD. The rocker kept his video camera running on plane and bus trips from venue to venue and backstage, capturing candid moments with tourmates like Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt and U2, but he thought he'd lost the footage when he was approached by RELEASED! The Human Rights Concerts 1986-1998 producer Martin Lewis, who was putting together a visual celebration of the star-studded Amnesty International Concerts.
Lewis tells WENN, "Peter Gabriel was obsessive with the camera but when I asked if I could use the footage he told me it (camera) had got nicked (stolen) and he had no idea where the footage was.
"I found some of the tapes in a barn in upstate New York and then set about condensing and restoring his footage from the 10-day 1986 tour into a three-minute film to be included as an extra segment for the package.
"It was amazing. I had read that the musicians on the tour staged an impromptu jam session in a Ramada Inn in Atlanta, Georgia. That was there and there were 11 minutes of U2 jamming with members of Peter Gabriel and Lou Reed's bands."
The six-disc DVD box-set and two-disc companion CD will be available from 5 November (13) and features performances at the human rights organisation's groundbreaking musical events throughout the 1980s and 1990s. It includes concert footage featuring U2, The Police, Radiohead, Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, Youssou N'Dour, Tracy Chapman and Alanis Morissette.

Spanish actor Antonio Banderas is still waiting to receive the final script for his new film about the 2010 Chilean mining disaster, weeks before production is set to begin in South America. The Desperado star is set to join Martin Sheen and Rodrigo Santoro in The 33, which will document the 69 days 33 Chilean miners spent trapped underground after a shaft collapsed in 2010.
Director Patricia Riggen is expected to start shooting on location in late November (13), but Banderas suggests there may be a slight delay.
He tells Spanish news agency EFE, "Everything (for the project) started quite a while ago, more than a year-and-a-half, but so far, right now, despite having a commitment with the producers of the film, I still have not received the final script."
However, the actor can understand why screenwriters are taking their time to finish the script.
He says, "They're continuing to work on it, cleaning it up, having conversations with those people who experienced this event... Whenever you play a person who existed, along with the acting work, there's a sense of responsibility, because it's a living character."
Riggen is also still searching for a replacement to step in for Jennifer Lopez, who was reportedly forced to pull out of the drama in September (13) due to scheduling clashes with her upcoming return as a judge on reality show American Idol.
The 33 is currently scheduled for release next year (14).

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Where we left off: Brody is locked away in Venezuela and being watched over by a man named El Nino, El Nino's daughter, and a super creepy doctor, and Carrie is still trapped in a mental ward. Basically, they're meant for each other because their lives are so similar (rather, that's what the writers want us to think).
"Game On"In this episode, Dana acts like a horrible teenager (she helps her slightly-off-kilter boyfriend, who turns out to have murdered his brother, escape from the psych ward, and then recites poetry from memory while drinking champagne in a cemetery), Saul does a terrible job of explaining what's happening in CIA world, and Carrie is a double agent. Wait, what? Carrie is a double agent? That’s right, folks. It looks like we've been duped.
After an hour of watching Carrie frantically avoid the CIA (she even goes as far as sleeping with a guy to have a place to stay for the night), we find out that she and Saul have been working together on a mission. An Iranian man, Javadi, is apparently the culprit of the Langley attack, and Carrie's job was to lure him out of the shadows so she can have a face-to-face conversation with him via the lawyers that contacted her in the previous episode. When Homeland fails us, we can always count on one thing: Carrie being an awesome spy. Unfortunately, what is supposed to be the biggest move of the episode quickly turns into a vat of questions that have no answers.
How deep does this mission go? Did it start before she was put in the mental hospital, or did it happen sometime while she was there? If Carrie was in on the plan the whole time, why did she sleep with the man from the liquor store? Was it really just to make the whole thing convincing for the lawyers following her? Why was her phone call with Virgil being tapped by the CIA? Does the CIA not know what Saul is doing? If the CIA doesn't know what Saul is doing, then is Saul really on Carrie's side? And finally, why is Dana still the focus of this show? And where is Quinn?
The good news is that Carrie isn't actually willing to turn on the CIA and reveal all of its secrets to Javadi. The bad news is that Homeland has resorted to last-second reveals to keep us hooked. Yes, they may work for now, but how long are we going to watch a show that only becomes interesting in the last five minute?
Highlight of the episode: Carrie is finally released from the hospital. There's only so much more forced arts and crafts that we could have taken.
Upset of the episode: Last week's episode had us finally gripping our seats as we saw Brody for the first time in the season and watched him battle a bullet the to the gut, a captor named El Nino, and plenty of murder. One would reasonably think that signaled the return of Brody, but because Homeland never wants us to be happy or satisfied, it seems like they've decided to dangle the promise of Brody right above our reach. This episode had absolutely zero Brody, which might have been a bad move. Not only did it leave the audience anxiously wondering when the now bald Brody would appear on screen, but it left us feeling like there was something very big missing by the end of the episode.
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Producers of a stage adaptation of Happy Days are calling on fans to invest thousands of dollars to cover unexpected expenses. Happy Days - A New Musical is already fully funded but bosses are seeking a further $375,000 (£250,000) to cover unforeseen costs before it starts touring in January (14).
Producers are hoping fans will be tempted by the involvement of the original Arthur 'The Fonz' Fonzarelli, Henry Winkler, as creative consultant and the TV show's creator Garry Marshall as its writer.
But investors contributing money via the crowd-funding platform Seedrs.com run the risk of seeing no returns on their investment if the show fails to turn a profit.
Director Martin Campbell tells Britain's Metro newspaper, "There is a risk attached, but this time the show is already funded and this is a way to gain engagement with Happy Days and musicals fans who want to buy into something they love or diversify their portfolios with something fun."
The adaptation, which stars Sugababes star Heidi Range in the female lead, opens at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley, London, in January (14) before a national tour, with a West End stint planned to follow.

Martin Sheen is set to be honoured at the Dubai International Film Festival for his stellar big screen career. The Apocalypse Now star has been chosen to receive a lifetime achievement award during the event's opening ceremony in the Middle East in December (13).
Speaking of his pride at the prize, he says, "This esteemed recognition inspires me to continue doing what I love most - telling stories through the art of cinema.
"I am very much looking forward to visiting Dubai in December and being immersed in the region's blossoming film industry."
DIFF chairman Abdulhamid Juma adds, "In that time he has brought to life a huge variety of compelling, intelligent and wonderfully engaging characters on the big and small screen.
"We are honoured to present Martin Sheen with the DIFF lifetime achievement award and we look forward to welcoming him to Dubai."

The Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess formed a rock supergroup with members of New Order, Mumford & Sons, The Vaccines and The Pretenders on Friday (18Oct13) to pay tribute to his late bandmate Jon Brookes. The gig at London's Royal Albert Hall boasted performances by Liam Gallagher, Manic Street Preachers' James Dean Bradfield, and the surviving members of The Charlatans, but it was an early set by Tim & Friends which got fans chatting excitedly as Burgess recruited New Order's Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert, Winston Marshall from Mumford & Sons, Freddie Cowan and Arni Arnason of The Vaccines and James Walbourn from The Pretenders to join him onstage for a special jam session.
Explaining how the supergroup line-up came together, Burgess told the audience, "I asked The Vaccines, but the singer was on holiday. I asked New Order, but the singer was on holiday. That wasn't going to stop us, so I said I'd sing."
The band covered New Order's Love Vigilantes and The Vaccines' Melody Calling, before wrapping up with Joy Division tune Love Will Tear Us Apart.
Burgess later returned to the spotlight to play with The Charlatans, and they had a special guest stepping in for Brookes - former The Verve drummer Pete Salisbury.
Speaking before the gig, bassist Martin Blunt told NME.com, "There was a tour when Jon was ill and wasn't going to be able to play. We asked who he wanted to replace him, and his first choice was Pete Salisbury."
Brookes, a founding member of the band, was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2010 and although he initially recovered enough to rejoin the band, he relapsed and died of brain cancer in August (13), aged 44.

R&B stars Tlc turned down the chance to record Britney Spears' breakout mega hit ...Baby One More Time because they were not comfortable with the lyrics. Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins reveals the girl group was offered the Max Martin and Rami Yacoub song before it was snapped up by Spears as her debut single back in 1999, but the singers rejected the track because it didn't fit their sound.
Recalling the offer, she tells MTV News, "I was like, 'I like the song but do I think it's a hit? Do I think it's TLC? I'm not saying 'hit me baby'.' No disrespect to Britney. It's good for her. But was I going to say, 'Hit me baby one more time'? Hell no!"
The song became a chart smash around the world, selling more than 10 million copies and catapulting Spears to superstardom at 18, but Watkins insists she has no regrets about the missed opportunity because it just wasn't right for TLC.
She continues, "It worked for her, I'm happy for her, I like Britney. Every song isn't good for each artist, and when you're a real artist you know what you believe in and what you really want to sing. So, I'm clear that it was a hit, but I'm also clear that it wasn't for TLC."

It looks like Bono wants an Oscar, guys. In the newest trailer for Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, the brand new U2 song titled "Ordinary Love" overlaps with Idris Elba's (playing Nelson Mandela) booming voice and poetic words in an effort to send empowering chills down your spine.
The lyrics, which were specifically written for this film, include lines like: "Oh, the beauty that's been lost before/ Wants to find us again" and "We can't fall any further in." With what seems like a music/film match made in heaven (what with U2 singing about human rights in every other song), we can't help but assume that the Irish rock band is aiming for an Oscar nod this upcoming award season, especially since it wouldn't be the first time they've made the ballot. In 2002, the group partnered with Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York to create "The Hands That Built America," which was nominated for an Academy Award and won at the Golden Globes.
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The Justin Chadwick-directed biopic, based on Mandela's autobiography of the same name, follows the political figure's life from his childhood to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom opens in limited release on Nov. 29.
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